Ship of Secrets (8 page)

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Aladdin paperback edition August 2014

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Library of Congress Control Number 2014939259

ISBN 978-1-4424-9045-1

ISBN 978-1-4424-9046-8 (eBook)